UNEP’s Environment Security work focuses on understanding how environmental degradation and climate change interact with peace and security dynamics ensuring that effective measures are put in place
UNEP works to understand and address these dynamics to protect the environment, ensure resilience to climate change, and promote peace in politically complex and fragile contexts.
UNEP undertakes this work through three primary approaches
Analysis: assessing the state of the environment and how it is changing; the drivers and pressures; linkages between environmental degradation, peace, security, and stability; and how specific environmental changes impact people and conflict/peace dynamics. Solution-design: identifying good environmental practices to address priority issues (e.g. ecosystem restoration, natural resource government mechanisms and agreements, infrastructure for water storage and harvesting…) Support to implementation: Identifying partners and donors, forming and managing partnerships; convening, process-design, managing and negotiating hurdles with political sensitivity.
